author's note: this is not related to the origin of a killer story in anyway, completely separate story. I own none of the characters from rango expect my OC lolita.

Outlaw's legacy

Prologue

The sun beat down of the dry landscape of the Mojave Desert, soaking up every last bit of little moisture the desert had to offer. There was not a cloud in the sky to bring relief to the hot sun. The intense heat danced in waves over nothing more a few dry brushes and Joshua trees scattered though out the desert. In this vast desolate landscape, a ominous serpentine shaped figured slithered across it, a rattlesnake that wore a sleek looking black hat on it's head, there were several ammo strapped crisscrossing along his rough scaled body and at the end of its tail was not a rattlesnake rattle, but a metal object in the shape of a nose of a gatling gun, six gun barrels stacked on top of each other, each one able to rotate at it's own accord. But the most striking feature of this rattlesnake was its eyes, it eyes were bight and fiery, with hues of red and orange fading into a bight yellow around the pupil. Those eyes looked like they came from hell itself and seemed to stare into anyone's very soul. It was the grim reaper of the west, rattlesnake Jake. But by this time he was still young and only became to know himself as an outlaw, his reputation was not that wide spread yet and he was still unknown in some parts of the desert.

Jake had been traveling in the desert for a long while now, he was exhausted from the heat of the day and wanted to find a place to rest soon. He wanted to find a town near by, but so far he found none. Soon enough, he had found a small town lying in the desert, he immediately went towards it. Once he got into the town, he did get a few weary looking from the people that were in the town, but he was mostly ignored by them. It seemed no one knew about him in this town yet, otherwise the people would a lot more afraid of him. Jake was kind of glad of that, he did not come here to pick a fight, mostly to just get a cold drink from the local saloon and rest up from a long day of traveling. This town Jake had entered was very small indeed, all it seemed to have in it was a few lopsided and broken down shacks and building made from garage found in the desert and wooden boards, and the citizens in it looked just as dirty and ugly, but at least this town had a saloon. Jake soon entered the saloon though the swinging doors and made his way to the bar. The saloon was a bit small and crowed for a big rattlesnake like himself. The people in the saloon that sat at the tables came him a few looks, but again the mostly did not pay attention to him. The bartender at the bar soon noticed Jake coming towards him and was a bit fearful of his presence at first, but remained calm trying not to start anything. He hoped the snake came in nothing more then just a drink. The bartender was a desert hare and had huge floppy ears that draped over his head and on to his shoulders. The cloths he wore were not all the great either, just a dirty torn up sleeveless shirt and torn up pants.

Once Jake got to the bar, the hare bartender try to treat just like any other customer.

"So what will it be?" said the bartender leads he hands on the bar counter.

"Cactus juice." Jake just muttered out.

Without another word the hare bartender reached behind the bar counter and pulled out a empty glass and a bottle of cactus juice and passed over to Jake. After that, the hare bartender went back to his daily business of attending to the other customers. Jake poured himself a glass and drank it quickly; the sting of the liquor burned his throat. Then Jake decided it was better to sit at a table and soon found himself one that was still empty in a corner. As Jake settled him at the table and lightly drank his cactus juice, he watched the people in the saloon go about their business. He saw many various types of rodent and reptile critters huddled around small tables drinking bottles of liquor or playing games of cards and constantly going in and out of the saloon.

Suddenly another rattlesnake appeared in the saloon; Jake took notice and was kind of surprised to see another rattlesnake here. Its scales were a light tan color, almost like the color of sand and the diamond pattern on its back was a rusty reddish brown and its eyes were a bright blue color. Jake suspected this rattlesnake was female and eyed her with interest as she made her way to the bar. The hare bartender greeted the female rattlesnake with a smile on his face; he did not seem to be afraid of her as he was with Jake. She seemed to well known among the townsfolk here.

Soon the hare bartender said to the female rattlesnake "good day, Lolita, how you been?"

"Fine, you?" the female rattlesnake said back to the bartender.

"Same as usual. Can I get you anything?' said the bartender again.

"Cactus juice please." said the female rattlesnake.

After that, the bartender brought out an empty glass and another bottle of cactus juice.

"There you are, mayhem." said the bartender as he passed the bottle and glass to the female rattlesnake.

The female rattlesnake just nodded her head a little in thank you.

The female rattlesnake soon noticed Jake staring at her and turned towards him, Jake quickly tried to avert his eyes by lowering he head to hide them with the rim of his hat, but it was too late.

"Who is that handsome fellow over there?" Lolita said as she turned back towards the bartender.

"Don't know, he just came into town today." said the bartender.

Then the bartender leaned in closer to Lolita with his arm leaning on the counter and a hand near is mouth, speaking in almost a whisper. "but if I were you, I would avoid him, he looks like a real shady character to me."

"Pff. Please, he doesn't look that scary to me. Besides I have handled tougher rattlesnakes in my time, I can handle myself." said Lolita

"Okay, didn't say I didn't warn ya:" the bartender said as he leaned away from Lolita

Then Lolita decided to meet this new stranger and started to make her way towards him. Once Jake saw the female rattlesnake come towards him, he began to get really nervous, he heart rate began to quicken a little and he felt himself turn red in the face.

"Dammit, keep your cool Jake, no need to get yourself worked up over a female like some silly schoolboy." Jake thought to himself.

Soon the female rattlesnake came right up next to Jake and looked at him seductively with his eyes. Jake still tried to hide his eyes with his hat.

"I haven't seen a fellow rattlesnake like you around here, you must be new here." said Lolita leaning in trying to get jake to look at her.

"Yeah, I am." Jake muttered out still keeping his head low.

"now, come on. Let see that handsome face of yours under that hat." Lolita said.

Jake finally brought up the courage to face the female rattlesnake directly and learned up his head towards her. Soon their eyes meet and they stared deeply into each other eyes. As Jake stared into Lolita's eyes, he thought her eyes were the most beautiful bight blue eyes he had ever seen and Lolita stared into Jake's bight crimson and yellow eyes like they were mesmerizing. To her his eyes were not scary or intimidating at all. Soon they were both entranced into each other glaze.

Then Lolita finally brought the silence and said "do you have a name, mister?

Jake snapped back to reality and said "uhhh….Jake."

"Mine's Lolita." said the female rattlesnake.

"So what a fellow like you doing in this town?" Lolita said again.

"Just came here for a quick rest stop" Jake said again.

As the two continued to stare at each other, there was a sudden outburst of noise outside the saloon, the sounds of gun fire and shouting. Some of the people in the saloon got up to look out the windows to see what all the noise was.

"Oh Christ, now what?" Lolita said was threw he head back and rolled her eyes.

Then Lolita moved away from Jake and went outside the saloon to take care of whoever was making all that noise. Jake was a little confused now and soon quickly followed behind Lolita. He stopped at the entrance of the saloon to find all that ruckus was a band of lowly bandits picking on a poor helpless soul, the poor critter was face down in the ground and the bandits were kicking him and rolling him around in the dirt and Lolita raced towards them to intervene. She soon slithered in front of the poor citizen they were picking on and faced the bandits head on.

"Why don't you leave this poor man alone and pick on some one your own size?" Lolita said to the bandits.

"Gladly, you be more fun for us anyway." One the bandits in the group said.

Lolita then gestured to the helpless man on the ground that now was his change to escape, he did so, quickly getting up off the ground and ran away as fast as he could. The bandits were now fully focused on the female rattlesnake. The bandits soon surrounded her and she hissed at them angrily. This fight was drawing a bit of a crowd now; the townspeople were watching and keeping a respectable distance away. Jake was watching with real interest too, he wanted to see how this fight would play out. Soon all the bandits drew their guns and started firing them at Lolita, but deliberately missing just to piss her off even more. She bared her fangs and made strikes at them, but they kept dodging out the way just in time. Soon they started running around her while continuing firing the guns. They're constant moving made even harder for Lolita to get a clear strike at any one of them and it only seemed to make her even madder. Suddenly one the bandits pulled out a rope, threw it in the air and managed to lasso it around her neck and with unimaginable strength, the bandit pulled her head to the ground. She let a loud hiss as her head hit the ground hard. Some the bandits hooped and hollered after they brought the rattlesnake down. Now the bandits had the advantage, with her head pinned to the ground, she could not strike. Jake soon saw that the bandits were ganging up on her and immediately raced towards them. He was not usually one in get involved in other people's fights, but this time he had no choice, he would not refuse to help to own kind in need.

"Hey! You leave her alone!" Jake shouted as he raced towards the bandits.

Once the bandits saw Jake coming they immediately dropped what they were doing and starting to run away. Jake hissed furious at them to make sure they did not come back. Then he turned towards Lolita, who was slowly raising her head back up and coughing from the dusty dirt. The townspeople who were watching were a bit awestruck to see this shady looking outlaw would actually go out his way to save someone else.

Jake tore away the rope that was around her neck and then said "are you alright?'

After coughing a bit more, Lolita finally said "yeah, I'm fine. Thank you, mister Jake. If you had not come, they might have got me."

"T'was nothing." said Jake lightly nodding his head to her.

Then suddenly Lolita gave Jake a light kiss on his cheek. Once she drew back, Jake eyes went wide and his jaw dropped a little and he could feel himself start to go red in the face again. Lolita just giggled a little bit at him.

"In a way, you saved my life and a very grateful for that." said Lolita.

In that moment, Jake knew they were going to be more then just friends. Jake liked her a lot and so did she. It was like love at first sight, Jake normally did not believe in things like love, but there something special about this female rattlesnake that made his cold heart melt every time he looked into those brilliant blue eyes of hers.

Soon after, the crowd of townspeople went back to their daily business and Lolita and Jake went back into the saloon to hang out for the rest of the day. They both drank themselves happily and talked about their daily lives, Jake kept his vague though, he did not want anyone to know about his past. Lolita did most of the talking anyway; she rambled on how she came to this town and was sort of a peacekeeper here, not exactly a sheriff, but still kept things from getting too out of hand. The mayor of the town gave her that duty since she was a rattlesnake, not many people wanted to challenge her. She did not mind really, she liked helping out those that were less fortunate that her.

As the day draw on to evening, they decided to leave the saloon and go for a nice stroll out in the desert under the evening light. As they both continued slithered on into the desert, Lolita started to get frisky and tempted Jake to playfully chase her. Suddenly Lolita bolted though the sand and Jake soon followed her, pretending to caught her. Soon they were racing and dancing with each other though the sandy dunes of the desert under the moonlight. For the first time in his life, Jake actually felt happy and did not want it to ever end. Soon they tired themselves though out the night and decided to settle themselves down for the night in a small cave not far from town. They were soon sound asleep entangled in each other's loving embrace.

Five months later.

Five months have passed since Jake and Lolita first met, they were soon married and set up a home for themselves on the outskirts of Lolita's home town, just a simple house with a kitchen, a small living room and two bedrooms, it was not much, but it was good enough for them. But soon to be a bigger family, Lolita was showing signs of pregnancy and was to due to give birth in a few months time. Jake soon became an outlaw for hire and was often called away on jobs to take out unwanted or troublesome people in other towns; Jake often had to travel far and sometimes would be away for days. Lolita did often worry about Jake while he was away, she knew what kind of jobs he did and often worried he might he hurt or even killed. But now she had grown more irritated then worried with Jake, he was spending more and more time away of his jobs then with her, she did not like the way things were going. While Jake was away, she continued to her job in her town, but now that she was pregnant and had a house to take of, it made her job much harder to do. She really wished Jake would stay here in her town and help her out, but it was of no use. Something had to change before it was too late.

One day, Jake came home late from one of his jobs, he slithered though the door into the kitchen with a jug of water wrapped in his coils, and Lolita was already in the kitchen waiting for him making dinner. Jake placed the jug of water on a table and leaned towards Lolita and gave her a light kiss on the cheek

"Evening, hun, how was your day?' Jake said as he pulled away from Lolita

"The usual." She said back to Jake.

Suddenly Lolita gave Jake a very angry look. At first Jake was a little confused on why she suddenly had gotten angry with him, then he noticed she was looking at his tail gun and once he turned towards it, he noticed that a little bit of blood was splattered on it, then realized that was what she was angry about. He went quickly to whap the blood off with his tongue.

"Jake, went are you going to stop this?' Lolita said a little frustrated.

Jake let out a frustrated sigh and rolled her eyes as he turned his head towards her.

"Hun, please, we been thought this…it's my job, it's what I do." said Jake

"What? Killing innocent people for money? That's blood money and you know it." Lolita said as she pointed towards the jug of water on the table.

"It puts food on the table, doesn't it?" Jake said back in an more angry voice.

"Even so, I don't want our children to grow in that kind of world." Lolita said angrily back

"Look, I'm sorry everything ain't perfect! But if you have not noticed, were rattlesnakes and I'm an outlaw, it's not like a can just stroll into town and ask for a normal desk job!" Jake started to shout.

"But I don't want you to be an outlaw anymore! I want you to stop killing people!" Lolita started to shout back.

"I do it because I don't have a choice! I do so we can survive!" Jake shouted again leaning closer to Lolita giving her the angriest glare ever with his fiery eyes.

Not the least bit intimidated, Lolita shouted back "no, you do have a choice! You could walk away from that if you wanted too!"

"Ungrateful women, I work hard all day and this is the thanks I get." Jake said furiously.

After that, Jake quickly slithered out the door from the kitchen and slammed the door hard with his tail gun as he left.

Once Jake was gone, tears started to stream down Lolita's face. This was not the first time they gotten into an argument and it always ended with Jake leaving and her crying, she hated for what Jake had become now. she felt their relationship was quickly falling apart, she wished she had never set eyes on him and thought he would the perfect mate for her, she should of seen him for nothing more then a cold hearted killer. Lolita soon set in for the night and cried herself to sleep, Jake never returned home that night.

In the morning, Jake was called once more to do another job in another town; so he left the town without even saying goodbye to Lolita. This time he was not going to come back.